Over six decades after she first hit the scene, Judy Collins remains one of the most iconic artists of the ’60s folk movement ...

In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published ... clinic also shows that when young students practice reading poems, they can develop fluency and expressive reading.

Reading “Poem for Aretha” offers a chance to contemplate ... “Knoxville, Tennessee” stands as a reminder of the beauty in ...

Perhaps she helped me find solace and purpose in living, cherishing the power of words and imagination. W.H. Auden’s poem in memory of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats remains in my heart and ...

At the very least you are reading this article, but there are so many other avenues as well. Books range in genres from romance, to nonfiction to graphic novels. Beyond the realm of literature, there ...

I mean, there’s a great resistance to reading poetry ... We’re trying to highlight the beauty of the poem, and the affective power of the poem, but we’re also trying to make something ...

I haven’t written a single poem in months. I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, pondering the riddle of power and the reasons for obedience. Later, on my way to a wedding, I wrote to a friend ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and ... This poem is also the opposite of everything I’ve just described. It’s as wild a piece of verse as you’ll ever read, seething and unruly ...

Recently, reading through the cookbook Jerusalem ... a toddler whom a soldier unremorsefully shoots in the eye. The poem’s power comes from its final lines, in which the child dispassionately ...

Spoken word poet Sekou Andrews demonstrated the power words can have in difficult ... (such as chills or goosebumps) to hearing poetry read aloud. These physical responses are connected to the ...